This document summarizes a presentation on smart home solutions for building automation and energy efficiency. It discusses the driving forces for increasing energy efficiency, including climate change concerns. Buildings account for around 40% of energy consumption globally. The presentation introduces ABB solutions for smart homes and intelligent building control using KNX technology. These solutions can provide functionality like lighting control, HVAC control, energy management and demand response to help reduce energy usage and interact with smart grids.
This document outlines a presentation about building automation and intelligent building control. It discusses ABB solutions for building automation, including applications for lighting control, HVAC, security, and energy management. It also covers topics like demand response, a solar house case study called surPLUShome, and the role of building automation in improving energy efficiency.
This document discusses smart meters and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). It begins with an overview of smart meters and their role in enabling bidirectional communication between utilities and consumers. It then covers the components of AMI systems including smart electricity meters, home energy management systems, various communication options, and how these systems can support functions like time-of-use pricing and demand response. Potential applications and operation scenarios with smart meters are also outlined.
Abb power and automation solid foundations for smart citiesSiegfried Quemado
This white paper discusses how intelligent technology can enable smarter solutions for smart cities. It describes ABB's role in providing power and automation technologies that support critical city infrastructure like electricity grids, water networks, transportation, buildings, and district heating and cooling. Some key points:
- ABB provides communication platforms, grid automation technologies, industrial/building automation, and integrated IT/OT systems to help monitor, optimize and control city infrastructure.
- Examples are given of how ABB has implemented distribution automation, outage management systems, and wireless networks to improve grid reliability and efficiency for utilities.
- Building and industrial automation solutions from ABB can achieve large energy savings through technologies like variable speed drives and integrated production control systems.
This document summarizes a presentation on smart metering in Europe. It discusses policy changes driving smart metering adoption, regulatory challenges around implementation, and business opportunities created by smart metering. Key points include: European Union directives and legislation are mandating smart metering to facilitate energy efficiency and markets; national regulatory approaches vary significantly; costs and benefits of smart metering need to be identified and quantified; and smart metering enables new business models and opportunities for consumers, suppliers, and network operators through demand response and improved system efficiency. Harmonization of technical standards and functional requirements is recommended to facilitate cost-effective regional adoption of smart metering.
The document discusses Enel's role in supporting the mass rollout of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe through electric vehicle charging infrastructure. It outlines Enel's existing activities in electric mobility, including deploying over 2,000 EV charging stations in Italy. The document proposes a regulated model where distribution system operators (DSOs) like Enel install, operate and manage public charging networks. This would help address challenges around the availability of charging infrastructure limiting EV adoption. Benefits for customers include lower charging fees and faster access to smart charging services that optimize renewable energy usage.
The document discusses the history and development of smart energy and smart grids. It began with the 2003 Northeast blackout and was expanded by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. The Act included titles on energy security, biofuels, transportation infrastructure, small business programs, and smart grids. Traditional electric utilities involved one-way energy flows with little information, while smart grids enable two-way communication and energy flows from various sources like solar and wind power. The document also discusses energy demand and pricing trends, wind energy growth in Denmark, various methods of energy storage, refrigerator and lighting energy usage trends in the US, goals to reduce CO2 emissions, the increase in energy regulation like the EPA's Clean Power Plan, the declining costs of
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled Biz Models for Hi-Tech Products to analyze the business model for Philips Lighting as a Service. Philips provides lighting services for cities and buildings in return for the cost savings from using LED lights. LED lights are more efficient than are incandescent and fluorescent lights and intelligent sensors enable further gains in efficiency through dimming when vehicles or people are not present. These slides describe the specific value proposition for cities, building owners, and other specific customers and other aspects of the business model such as the method of value capture, scope of activities, and method of strategic control.
The document summarizes Schneider Electric's history and strategy for helping address global energy challenges through energy management solutions. It discusses Schneider Electric's focus on making energy safer, more reliable, efficient and green through smart grid technologies, integrated building solutions, and an innovation ecosystem partnering with startups and organizations. The company's commitments to sustainability and stakeholders are also highlighted.
This document outlines a presentation about building automation and intelligent building control. It discusses ABB solutions for building automation, including applications for lighting control, HVAC, security, and energy management. It also covers topics like demand response, a solar house case study called surPLUShome, and the role of building automation in improving energy efficiency.
This document discusses smart meters and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). It begins with an overview of smart meters and their role in enabling bidirectional communication between utilities and consumers. It then covers the components of AMI systems including smart electricity meters, home energy management systems, various communication options, and how these systems can support functions like time-of-use pricing and demand response. Potential applications and operation scenarios with smart meters are also outlined.
Abb power and automation solid foundations for smart citiesSiegfried Quemado
This white paper discusses how intelligent technology can enable smarter solutions for smart cities. It describes ABB's role in providing power and automation technologies that support critical city infrastructure like electricity grids, water networks, transportation, buildings, and district heating and cooling. Some key points:
- ABB provides communication platforms, grid automation technologies, industrial/building automation, and integrated IT/OT systems to help monitor, optimize and control city infrastructure.
- Examples are given of how ABB has implemented distribution automation, outage management systems, and wireless networks to improve grid reliability and efficiency for utilities.
- Building and industrial automation solutions from ABB can achieve large energy savings through technologies like variable speed drives and integrated production control systems.
This document summarizes a presentation on smart metering in Europe. It discusses policy changes driving smart metering adoption, regulatory challenges around implementation, and business opportunities created by smart metering. Key points include: European Union directives and legislation are mandating smart metering to facilitate energy efficiency and markets; national regulatory approaches vary significantly; costs and benefits of smart metering need to be identified and quantified; and smart metering enables new business models and opportunities for consumers, suppliers, and network operators through demand response and improved system efficiency. Harmonization of technical standards and functional requirements is recommended to facilitate cost-effective regional adoption of smart metering.
The document discusses Enel's role in supporting the mass rollout of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe through electric vehicle charging infrastructure. It outlines Enel's existing activities in electric mobility, including deploying over 2,000 EV charging stations in Italy. The document proposes a regulated model where distribution system operators (DSOs) like Enel install, operate and manage public charging networks. This would help address challenges around the availability of charging infrastructure limiting EV adoption. Benefits for customers include lower charging fees and faster access to smart charging services that optimize renewable energy usage.
The document discusses the history and development of smart energy and smart grids. It began with the 2003 Northeast blackout and was expanded by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. The Act included titles on energy security, biofuels, transportation infrastructure, small business programs, and smart grids. Traditional electric utilities involved one-way energy flows with little information, while smart grids enable two-way communication and energy flows from various sources like solar and wind power. The document also discusses energy demand and pricing trends, wind energy growth in Denmark, various methods of energy storage, refrigerator and lighting energy usage trends in the US, goals to reduce CO2 emissions, the increase in energy regulation like the EPA's Clean Power Plan, the declining costs of
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled Biz Models for Hi-Tech Products to analyze the business model for Philips Lighting as a Service. Philips provides lighting services for cities and buildings in return for the cost savings from using LED lights. LED lights are more efficient than are incandescent and fluorescent lights and intelligent sensors enable further gains in efficiency through dimming when vehicles or people are not present. These slides describe the specific value proposition for cities, building owners, and other specific customers and other aspects of the business model such as the method of value capture, scope of activities, and method of strategic control.
The document summarizes Schneider Electric's history and strategy for helping address global energy challenges through energy management solutions. It discusses Schneider Electric's focus on making energy safer, more reliable, efficient and green through smart grid technologies, integrated building solutions, and an innovation ecosystem partnering with startups and organizations. The company's commitments to sustainability and stakeholders are also highlighted.
The document describes the EMPOWER architecture for local energy markets. It defines the relationships between different agents in local smart grids through a mapping of technical, business, and market models. The architecture includes a control cloud, market cloud, and communication infrastructure to enable negotiation and trading of energy between consumers, producers, storage units, and the distribution system operator. It applies the SGAM model to specify the control, market and communication interactions between these entities at different zones and domains. Finally, it outlines the overall EMPOWER architecture linking field devices and flexibility services to the SESP platform and external information providers.
Kostas STAMATIS
Directorate-General for Energy
European Commission
WORKSHOP: “DEFINING SMART GRIDS: CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION”
Session 1: Technical and regulatory aspects and recommendations for effective smart grids deployment under the provisions of the winter package
Barcelona, 9th February 2017
Organised by TR@NSENER Consortium.
TR@NSENER - European cooperation Network on Energy Transition in Electricity
A smart building generates data from devices and sends it securely to the cloud, where predictive algorithms correlate it with other data to forecast results. These results are sent to mobile devices and back to the building management system to optimize settings and save energy and money. Schneider Electric's StruxureWare Building Expert platform provides a global architecture with modules for sustainability, energy management, asset management, and other functions on a unified data model. EcoStruxure bridges the gap between IT and operational technology to meet customer needs around cost reduction, risk mitigation, and improved asset value through the building lifecycle.
This document discusses the transition from conventional power grids to smart grids. The conventional grid uses a tree topology to transmit electricity from centralized producers to consumers in a one-way flow. Market liberalization introduced multiple actors like producers, transporters, and regulators. Smart grids enable two-way power flows, demand response capabilities, distributed generation, and increased use of renewable energy sources. Key aspects of smart grids include smart meters, demand side management through time-of-use pricing, and enabling business opportunities in areas like electric vehicles and home energy management systems. The development of smart grids will require close collaboration between utilities and telecommunications sectors.
Patent Landscape Report on “Electric vehicles – Vehicle to Grid Technology” b...Caroline Charumathy
Vehicle to grid technology is widely used for reducing / handling peak loads on the grid. The most patented technologies under V2G are Charging control system, Billing and metering system, Communication and networking system, Wireless energy transfer system. This landscape report will help in understanding the patenting activity for V2G by different OEM's and identifying the key players in this technology.
To get in-depth analysis of specific technology areas and the competitive patent landscape similar to this, contact us.
This document summarizes a presentation on smart grids given at a workshop in Barcelona, Spain in 2017. It discusses how the electricity system may look different in 20 years due to digitalization, with smart connected products changing competition. It also notes the potential for prosumers, or consumer-producers, to have significant market power if they collectively participate in energy markets. Finally, it discusses the case for transitioning to smart grids but also reasons why change may not fully materialize, such as certain large infrastructure investments undermining alternatives or business cases being too dependent on local conditions.
1. The document discusses smart energy management algorithms developed by Dr. Milan Prodanović at IMDEA Energy in Madrid.
2. IMDEA Energy focuses on renewable energy technologies and is organized into six research units, including one on electrical processes that develops smart management techniques for power networks.
3. Future power networks will require flexible real-time management algorithms to integrate distributed generation, energy storage, active demand management, and electric vehicles while allowing for real-time energy trading.
The document discusses the UK's Smart Metering Implementation Plan (SMIP) which aims to roll out smart meters in homes and businesses by 2020. Key points include mandating 80% electricity and 20% gas meter replacement by 2020 to meet EU directives of reducing energy use and greenhouse gases by 20% each and sourcing 20% of energy from renewables. SMIP will involve installing 61 million smart electricity and gas meters across 34 million homes and businesses. Benefits include utility savings of £9 billion, consumer savings of £6 billion, and carbon savings of £1.5 billion. The SMIP ecosystem and roles of energy suppliers, the Data and Communications Company, and Communication Service Providers are outlined. Telefonica was
This document discusses the vision and challenges of implementing smart grids with hierarchical DC-based microgrids. It describes a potential architecture with nanogrids and picogrids powered by a 380V DC main distribution bus. Key challenges discussed include the need for standardized DC voltage levels, reliable DC circuit breakers and buses, and distributed control schemes like droop control. Modeling and control of the complex nonlinear converter systems is also highlighted as an important area of further research.
1) Microgrids allow for resilient and cost effective power by enabling distributed energy resources and loads to be operated in a controlled way while connected to or isolated from the main grid.
2) ABB offers comprehensive microgrid solutions across the entire project lifecycle from consulting to installation to operation and maintenance.
3) In Johannesburg, South Africa, ABB implemented a PV/diesel microgrid with battery storage to maximize solar energy contribution and ensure reliable power for ABB's facility, reducing CO2 by over 1,000 tons/year.
Smart Grid The Role of Electricity Infrastructure in Reducing Greenhouse Gas ...Gruene-it.org
This white paper discusses how implementing a smart grid using information and communications technology can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector in three ways: 1) By reducing growth in electricity demand through tools like smart meters and demand response programs. 2) By accelerating adoption of renewable electricity sources like microgeneration and electric vehicles. 3) By delaying construction of new power plants and transmission lines by prolonging the life of existing infrastructure. The paper outlines the key applications of a smart grid and their potential environmental and economic impacts.
The document discusses smart energy in the European Union and outlines principles for smart grids and smart buildings. It argues that smart energy systems can improve energy efficiency, reduce costs for consumers, and provide a more secure energy system. Specifically, the principles outlined include: (1) maximizing customer benefits and minimizing costs and demand through energy management and demand response; (2) empowering consumers to control their energy usage through access to usage data and dynamic pricing; and (3) enabling utilities to reliably deliver power through reduced outages and integration of renewable energy.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for smart grids. It describes smart grids as energy networks that can automatically monitor and adjust energy flows based on supply and demand changes. Key challenges discussed include control and protection, seamlessly integrating renewables, and advanced forecasting of generation, load, and prices. The document also outlines some benefits of smart grids like local reliability and reduced emissions. It provides examples of how technologies like wide area monitoring systems, real-time simulators, and forecasting models can help address challenges in developing smart grid systems.
Dutch multi utility smart metering with direct in home feedbackMachiel Joosse
The document describes a proof of concept for a multi-utility smart metering system in the Netherlands that provides consumers with direct in-home feedback on their energy, gas, and water usage. It leverages the existing Dutch smart metering infrastructure and standardized P1 port to connect additional smart water and heat meters. The system aims to help consumers reduce consumption through behavioral changes by correlating usage data and peaks across utilities. An evaluation of installed systems is planned to assess consumer appreciation and energy efficiency savings. Next steps include further technical development and aligning stakeholders on architecture, costs and benefits based on lessons learned.
V2G allows electric vehicles to provide power to the electrical grid during periods of peak demand by allowing two-way power flow. There are three main versions of V2G involving battery-powered vehicles that can provide power to the grid from excess battery capacity during peak times and recharge during off-peak times. V2G systems provide benefits like peak load leveling and spinning reserves but challenges include potential grid overloading and high vehicle costs compared to ICE vehicles.
Seizing the Opportunity – The Schneider Electric StoryHKTDC Nordics
This document provides an overview of Schneider Electric, an international energy management company, and discusses its operations in Hong Kong. Schneider Electric has over 100,000 employees globally and generates €27 billion in annual sales across Americas, Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and other regions. The company focuses on making energy management safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green. Hong Kong serves as an important management hub and key market for Schneider Electric in Asia Pacific. It discusses opportunities for smart energy, buildings, water, and mobility solutions to improve efficiency in Hong Kong.
30 11-2011 mart grid Jani Valtari Cleen Finpro seminarBusiness Finland
The document discusses the Smart Grids and Energy Markets (SGEM) Consortium in Finland. SGEM is a 5-year, 57 million euro program run by CLEEN Ltd to develop smart grid technologies. It includes 7 work packages focusing on distribution networks, customer engagement, energy markets, and more. Key goals are to create an innovation foundation for smart grids and validate solutions in real environments.
Regional Training Programme on Efficient Grid-interactive buildingsSarahDean70
This document outlines an agenda for a training programme on energy efficient grid-interactive buildings. The programme includes modules on energy efficient buildings, building systems and operations, and the transition to net zero carbon buildings. It discusses key topics like the integrated design process, smart grid-interactive buildings, and the roadmap needed to achieve net zero carbon buildings by 2050 through measures like improved energy efficiency, electrification, use of renewable energy, and retrofitting existing buildings. The document provides information on building energy usage, technologies, and policy measures needed to decarbonize the building sector.
The document summarizes ABB's role and solutions for enabling smart and sustainable cities. It discusses the challenges of urbanization, including increasing population, strain on infrastructure, and the need for growth, sustainability and competitive cities. ABB helps cities develop smart city visions and execute them through technologies that enable efficient energy use, renewable integration, electric mobility, and integrated smart grid, transportation and water/waste solutions. Example projects are described that demonstrate ABB's work on smart city communications networks, active homes, electric vehicle charging, shore power for ships, and fully integrated smart city districts.
The document describes the EMPOWER architecture for local energy markets. It defines the relationships between different agents in local smart grids through a mapping of technical, business, and market models. The architecture includes a control cloud, market cloud, and communication infrastructure to enable negotiation and trading of energy between consumers, producers, storage units, and the distribution system operator. It applies the SGAM model to specify the control, market and communication interactions between these entities at different zones and domains. Finally, it outlines the overall EMPOWER architecture linking field devices and flexibility services to the SESP platform and external information providers.
Kostas STAMATIS
Directorate-General for Energy
European Commission
WORKSHOP: “DEFINING SMART GRIDS: CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION”
Session 1: Technical and regulatory aspects and recommendations for effective smart grids deployment under the provisions of the winter package
Barcelona, 9th February 2017
Organised by TR@NSENER Consortium.
TR@NSENER - European cooperation Network on Energy Transition in Electricity
A smart building generates data from devices and sends it securely to the cloud, where predictive algorithms correlate it with other data to forecast results. These results are sent to mobile devices and back to the building management system to optimize settings and save energy and money. Schneider Electric's StruxureWare Building Expert platform provides a global architecture with modules for sustainability, energy management, asset management, and other functions on a unified data model. EcoStruxure bridges the gap between IT and operational technology to meet customer needs around cost reduction, risk mitigation, and improved asset value through the building lifecycle.
This document discusses the transition from conventional power grids to smart grids. The conventional grid uses a tree topology to transmit electricity from centralized producers to consumers in a one-way flow. Market liberalization introduced multiple actors like producers, transporters, and regulators. Smart grids enable two-way power flows, demand response capabilities, distributed generation, and increased use of renewable energy sources. Key aspects of smart grids include smart meters, demand side management through time-of-use pricing, and enabling business opportunities in areas like electric vehicles and home energy management systems. The development of smart grids will require close collaboration between utilities and telecommunications sectors.
Patent Landscape Report on “Electric vehicles – Vehicle to Grid Technology” b...Caroline Charumathy
Vehicle to grid technology is widely used for reducing / handling peak loads on the grid. The most patented technologies under V2G are Charging control system, Billing and metering system, Communication and networking system, Wireless energy transfer system. This landscape report will help in understanding the patenting activity for V2G by different OEM's and identifying the key players in this technology.
To get in-depth analysis of specific technology areas and the competitive patent landscape similar to this, contact us.
This document summarizes a presentation on smart grids given at a workshop in Barcelona, Spain in 2017. It discusses how the electricity system may look different in 20 years due to digitalization, with smart connected products changing competition. It also notes the potential for prosumers, or consumer-producers, to have significant market power if they collectively participate in energy markets. Finally, it discusses the case for transitioning to smart grids but also reasons why change may not fully materialize, such as certain large infrastructure investments undermining alternatives or business cases being too dependent on local conditions.
1. The document discusses smart energy management algorithms developed by Dr. Milan Prodanović at IMDEA Energy in Madrid.
2. IMDEA Energy focuses on renewable energy technologies and is organized into six research units, including one on electrical processes that develops smart management techniques for power networks.
3. Future power networks will require flexible real-time management algorithms to integrate distributed generation, energy storage, active demand management, and electric vehicles while allowing for real-time energy trading.
The document discusses the UK's Smart Metering Implementation Plan (SMIP) which aims to roll out smart meters in homes and businesses by 2020. Key points include mandating 80% electricity and 20% gas meter replacement by 2020 to meet EU directives of reducing energy use and greenhouse gases by 20% each and sourcing 20% of energy from renewables. SMIP will involve installing 61 million smart electricity and gas meters across 34 million homes and businesses. Benefits include utility savings of £9 billion, consumer savings of £6 billion, and carbon savings of £1.5 billion. The SMIP ecosystem and roles of energy suppliers, the Data and Communications Company, and Communication Service Providers are outlined. Telefonica was
This document discusses the vision and challenges of implementing smart grids with hierarchical DC-based microgrids. It describes a potential architecture with nanogrids and picogrids powered by a 380V DC main distribution bus. Key challenges discussed include the need for standardized DC voltage levels, reliable DC circuit breakers and buses, and distributed control schemes like droop control. Modeling and control of the complex nonlinear converter systems is also highlighted as an important area of further research.
1) Microgrids allow for resilient and cost effective power by enabling distributed energy resources and loads to be operated in a controlled way while connected to or isolated from the main grid.
2) ABB offers comprehensive microgrid solutions across the entire project lifecycle from consulting to installation to operation and maintenance.
3) In Johannesburg, South Africa, ABB implemented a PV/diesel microgrid with battery storage to maximize solar energy contribution and ensure reliable power for ABB's facility, reducing CO2 by over 1,000 tons/year.
Smart Grid The Role of Electricity Infrastructure in Reducing Greenhouse Gas ...Gruene-it.org
This white paper discusses how implementing a smart grid using information and communications technology can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector in three ways: 1) By reducing growth in electricity demand through tools like smart meters and demand response programs. 2) By accelerating adoption of renewable electricity sources like microgeneration and electric vehicles. 3) By delaying construction of new power plants and transmission lines by prolonging the life of existing infrastructure. The paper outlines the key applications of a smart grid and their potential environmental and economic impacts.
The document discusses smart energy in the European Union and outlines principles for smart grids and smart buildings. It argues that smart energy systems can improve energy efficiency, reduce costs for consumers, and provide a more secure energy system. Specifically, the principles outlined include: (1) maximizing customer benefits and minimizing costs and demand through energy management and demand response; (2) empowering consumers to control their energy usage through access to usage data and dynamic pricing; and (3) enabling utilities to reliably deliver power through reduced outages and integration of renewable energy.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for smart grids. It describes smart grids as energy networks that can automatically monitor and adjust energy flows based on supply and demand changes. Key challenges discussed include control and protection, seamlessly integrating renewables, and advanced forecasting of generation, load, and prices. The document also outlines some benefits of smart grids like local reliability and reduced emissions. It provides examples of how technologies like wide area monitoring systems, real-time simulators, and forecasting models can help address challenges in developing smart grid systems.
Dutch multi utility smart metering with direct in home feedbackMachiel Joosse
The document describes a proof of concept for a multi-utility smart metering system in the Netherlands that provides consumers with direct in-home feedback on their energy, gas, and water usage. It leverages the existing Dutch smart metering infrastructure and standardized P1 port to connect additional smart water and heat meters. The system aims to help consumers reduce consumption through behavioral changes by correlating usage data and peaks across utilities. An evaluation of installed systems is planned to assess consumer appreciation and energy efficiency savings. Next steps include further technical development and aligning stakeholders on architecture, costs and benefits based on lessons learned.
V2G allows electric vehicles to provide power to the electrical grid during periods of peak demand by allowing two-way power flow. There are three main versions of V2G involving battery-powered vehicles that can provide power to the grid from excess battery capacity during peak times and recharge during off-peak times. V2G systems provide benefits like peak load leveling and spinning reserves but challenges include potential grid overloading and high vehicle costs compared to ICE vehicles.
Seizing the Opportunity – The Schneider Electric StoryHKTDC Nordics
This document provides an overview of Schneider Electric, an international energy management company, and discusses its operations in Hong Kong. Schneider Electric has over 100,000 employees globally and generates €27 billion in annual sales across Americas, Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and other regions. The company focuses on making energy management safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green. Hong Kong serves as an important management hub and key market for Schneider Electric in Asia Pacific. It discusses opportunities for smart energy, buildings, water, and mobility solutions to improve efficiency in Hong Kong.
30 11-2011 mart grid Jani Valtari Cleen Finpro seminarBusiness Finland
The document discusses the Smart Grids and Energy Markets (SGEM) Consortium in Finland. SGEM is a 5-year, 57 million euro program run by CLEEN Ltd to develop smart grid technologies. It includes 7 work packages focusing on distribution networks, customer engagement, energy markets, and more. Key goals are to create an innovation foundation for smart grids and validate solutions in real environments.
Regional Training Programme on Efficient Grid-interactive buildingsSarahDean70
This document outlines an agenda for a training programme on energy efficient grid-interactive buildings. The programme includes modules on energy efficient buildings, building systems and operations, and the transition to net zero carbon buildings. It discusses key topics like the integrated design process, smart grid-interactive buildings, and the roadmap needed to achieve net zero carbon buildings by 2050 through measures like improved energy efficiency, electrification, use of renewable energy, and retrofitting existing buildings. The document provides information on building energy usage, technologies, and policy measures needed to decarbonize the building sector.
The document summarizes ABB's role and solutions for enabling smart and sustainable cities. It discusses the challenges of urbanization, including increasing population, strain on infrastructure, and the need for growth, sustainability and competitive cities. ABB helps cities develop smart city visions and execute them through technologies that enable efficient energy use, renewable integration, electric mobility, and integrated smart grid, transportation and water/waste solutions. Example projects are described that demonstrate ABB's work on smart city communications networks, active homes, electric vehicle charging, shore power for ships, and fully integrated smart city districts.
Smart grids More efficient and reliable gridsIMDEA Energia
The document discusses smart grids and their role in creating more efficient and reliable electricity systems. It notes that electricity demand is rising significantly globally due to growth in developing countries. Smart grids can help meet this rising demand through improved capacity, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. They allow for higher penetration of renewable energy and demand response. Ongoing smart grid projects in Malta and Stockholm are highlighted which aim to integrate electric vehicles, renewable energy and energy storage among other things. Smart grids are concluded to significantly help mitigate climate change by allowing higher utilization of generation, transmission and distribution assets as well as higher levels of variable renewable energy and demand response.
The document discusses the increasing demand for electricity globally and the transition to renewable energy sources like wind and solar. This transition poses challenges for power grids due to the variable and uncertain output of renewables. Smart grid technologies like energy storage, demand response programs, and distributed generation can help balance supply and demand and make grids more flexible and adaptable to renewable energy. ABB provides many power and automation solutions to help utilities and customers manage this shift to more sustainable, low-carbon energy systems.
How demand for flexibility will develop in the German power systemLeonardo ENERGY
The Webinar presents the results of a research project on flexibility in the German power sector. It analyses the flexibility demand with a rising share of RES-E and compares different flexibility options.
The project consists of a model-based scenario analysis for 2020, 2030 and 2050 and applies the electricity system model PowerFlex together with a European network model to analyze import and export as a flexibility option.
Flexibility becomes an issue only in the scenario 2030 with 60 % RES-E. In 2020 additional flexibility can increase efficiency, but is not essential to run the system or to integrate RES-E.
http://www.leonardo-energy.org/webinar/how-demand-flexibility-will-develop-german-power-system
The sEEnergies project aims to operationalize the energy efficiency first principle (EEFP) both qualitatively and quantitatively. It will develop a decision support tool combining sector-specific energy demand models to analyze EE potentials from an energy systems perspective. Bottom-up models of buildings, transport, industry and grids will provide cost curves and potentials for EE measures. Scenarios from the EU's "A Clean Planet for All" will be used as common references. Energy system modelling will assess EEFP impacts and enable scenarios assessing synergies. A spatial model will map supply and demand and efficiency potentials. Heat Roadmap Europe provides recommendations including prioritizing savings over supply, utilizing excess heat and renewable energy in district heating, and establishing
Role of Building Automation related to Renewable Energy in nZEB’sLeonardo ENERGY
Building automation has a key role to play in the implementation of nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB). Building automation is the connector of all the single requirements for nZEB, such as a well-insulated and airtight building shell, efficient HVAC system and a high share of renewable energy. That is the main conclusion of this study, prepared by Ecofys for the Leonardo ENERGY initiative.
Main functions of building automation
The study identifies the most important building automation functions in an nZEB as follows:
1. Central, concerted control of all energy related components
Building automation taps all internal saving potential and assures that the whole system can work with highest efficiency. While sophisticated central systems with producer-independent compatibility are commonly available, they need to be developed and supported further to arrive at a necessary standard requirement for nearly zero-energy buildings.
2. Monitoring and providing feedback
Building automation guarantees that the demanded and calculated (low) energy demand of the nearly zero-energy is met. That is one of the key aspects in meeting climate goals.
Next to that, building automation encourages users to save energy. The expected saving potential of this indirect efficiency measure are estimated to be up to 30%.
3. Load shifting and storage management
Building automation increases the coverage rates of renewable energy on site (mainly PV). The expected increase of total coverage rate by building automation without additional storage is estimated to be up to 5% in southern European regions.
Also, building automation increases free cooling potentials in central and southern European regions. Free cooling potentials are often still untapped, but necessary to reduce cooling demand significantly.
Thirdly, building automation increases grid stability. The challenge to maintain grid stability will become larger with increased penetration of renewable energies.
4. Ensuring the thermal comfort
Ensuring thermal comfort is especially important at highly efficient but slow reacting systems, like concrete activation or floor heating. Industry needs to develop and improve control mechanisms, which are specialized to control slow reacting systems in nearly zero-energy buildings (e.g. by using weather forecasts).
Action required
To ensure that the indicated potentials of building automation are achieved different actions from different stakeholders will be necessary. As indicated in chapter 6 some of those need to originate from policies, e.g. to develop an adequate regulatory basis or to create awareness. Others need to come from industry to provide suitable products.
Finally, many aspects of building automation will need to be further investigated before their full benefits can be reaped. Testing and monitoring of realized nearly zero energy buildings with inte-grated building automation systems wi
Miro Zeman - Department of Electrical Sustainable EnergyDutch Power
This document discusses future sustainable and intelligent electrical energy systems. It describes the transition towards renewable energy sources and smart grids to improve efficiency and integrate renewable technologies. The key drivers of this energy transition include EU climate targets for 2020 and the 2015 Paris agreement. Research at TU Delft's Electrical Sustainable Energy department takes a multi-disciplinary approach across technical, economic and social aspects to help develop future sustainable electricity systems.
ABB is a global engineering company with over 135,000 employees across 100 countries. It provides power and automation technologies, including products, systems, and services. The company has five divisions organized around its main businesses, and it aims to help customers use electrical power efficiently to increase productivity and lower environmental impact. ABB has a long history dating back to its founding in the late 19th century and is a leader in industries like power transmission, renewable energy, and industrial automation.
This document discusses achieving deep energy retrofits in a cost effective manner. It describes different funding models for combining standard renovation funds with private financing to implement more comprehensive energy efficiency upgrades during major building renovations. Combining "anyway" renovation costs with energy service company performance contracts allows deeper retrofits to be achieved without significantly increasing total project costs. Using proven energy efficiency technologies and improved quality assurance can reduce risks and costs associated with deep energy retrofits.
On December 14, 2009, the Alliance to Save Energy and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) held a side event at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, entitled, "Paradox to Paradigm: The Role of Energy Efficiency in Creating Low Carbon Economies."
The document summarizes the challenges of green ICT in the European Union. It discusses the ICT sector's energy footprint and potential to help meet climate change goals. The EU policy framework aims to develop more energy efficient ICT technologies and networks through research programs like FP7. Several FP7 projects are working on energy efficiency in future networks and the Future Internet.
The document discusses energy efficiency and intelligent buildings. It notes that buildings consume over 40% of total energy in developed nations and that implementing efficiency measures in buildings could save significant amounts of energy. It envisions future buildings that require minimal energy for ideal comfort through highly insulating structures and efficient equipment. Such buildings would use intelligence and renewable energy sources to optimize energy usage and potentially produce their own energy or contribute excess power back to the grid. Realizing this vision will require innovative solutions for new and existing buildings as well as additional processing power and intelligence throughout building infrastructures.
For new buildings, the recast fixes 2020 as the deadline for all new buildings to be
“nearly zero energy” (and even sooner for public buildings – by the end of 2018). For
existing buildings, Member States are required to draw up national plans to increase the
number of nearly zero energy buildings, though no specific targets have been set.
However, the Directive does not clearly define what a “nearly zero energy building” is,
either for new build or refurbishment of existing buildings. Article 2(1a) gives a purely
qualitative definition:
A “nearly zero energy building” is a building that has a very high energy
performance. The nearly zero or very low amount of energy required should be
covered to a very significant extent by energy from renewable sources, including
energy from renewable sources produced on-site or nearby.
Energy Research Program of the German GovernmentIEA-ETSAP
Germany's energy transition, called the Energiewende, aims to balance security of supply, cost-effectiveness, and environmental protection. It involves increasing energy efficiency, renewable energy sources like solar and wind, and integrating sectors like electricity and transportation. Technological challenges include improving grid connections between regions for better renewable energy distribution and ensuring flexibility to integrate high levels of variable renewable generation. Germany's national research and development agenda focuses on expediting the energy transition through innovation in areas like renewable energy, grid integration, sector coupling, and digital technologies.
Improving Technical Installations in BuildingsLeonardo ENERGY
This document provides input from the European Copper Institute into the public consultation on the evaluation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). While the EPBD has helped improve energy efficiency in buildings, it has primarily focused on new builds and major renovations, failing to capture significant potential savings from improving existing building technical systems. Upgrading controls and equipment offers cost-effective savings across the entire building stock. The EPBD could be improved by better addressing operational energy use and ensuring cost-optimality assessments properly consider all options like building automation.
BIPV modules are building components that provide both a construction function and electricity generation. They must maintain building integrity if removed. Perovskite solar cells offer significant efficiency improvements over silicon and could enable cost reductions if commercialized. BIPV presents opportunities to generate more renewable energy on buildings compared to standard PV due to greater coverage of facades. This could help meet targets for low-carbon buildings under the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. However, BIPV modules must also meet architectural requirements like aesthetics, flexibility in size, and ease of installation to be viable solutions.
Ministry of Economics of Latvia, as EU SBSR Policy Area ‘Energy’ coordinator, is organizing a series of online discussions on the topic "Financing renovation project: mapping roles and responsibilities".
On November 19th, 2020 from 11 am to 13.30 pm Riga time (GMT+2) we are holding the first discussion round - Financing renovation project: stakeholders, decision-making process, project management, and documentation.
In cooperation with the Swedish Institute, we have already established a strong network of experts in the field of energy efficiency by successfully establishing a Baltic Leadership Programme on Energy Efficiency.
With the new series of discussions, we aim to discuss associated funding structures, project implementation, execution, main obstacles, and how to overcome them. The ultimate aim is to continue building a macroregional flagship process on exchanging experiences and sharing competencies on Energy Efficiency.
Financing renovation project: mapping roles and responsibilities discussion GER